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Cheval à l'abreuvoir
Details
Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Cheval à l'abreuvoir
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the base); stamped with the foundry mark 'Cire Perdue A.A.Hébrard' and numbered '13/M' (on the right of the base)
bronze with a brown patina
Height: 6½in. (16.5cm.)
Conceived in 1866-68; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1925 in an edition of 22, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for Degas' heirs and the founder Hébrard
Cheval à l'abreuvoir
stamped with signature 'Degas' (Lugt 658; on the base); stamped with the foundry mark 'Cire Perdue A.A.Hébrard' and numbered '13/M' (on the right of the base)
bronze with a brown patina
Height: 6½in. (16.5cm.)
Conceived in 1866-68; this bronze version cast between 1919 and 1925 in an edition of 22, numbered A to T plus two casts reserved for Degas' heirs and the founder Hébrard
Provenance
Galerie Flechtheim, Dusseldorf.
Literature
J. Rewald, Edgar Degas: Works in Sculpture, New York 1944, no. II (another cast illustrated p. 35).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, London 1957, no. II (another cast
illustrated pl. 2).
P. Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris 1959, p. 64 (another cast
illustrated pl. XII).
J. Lassaigne (intro.), Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Milan 1970, p. 143, no. S.42 (another cast illustrated).
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton 1976, no. 9 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 13 (another cast illustrated p. 17).
J. Rewald, Degas Sculpture, London 1957, no. II (another cast
illustrated pl. 2).
P. Cabanne, Edgar Degas, Paris 1959, p. 64 (another cast
illustrated pl. XII).
J. Lassaigne (intro.), Tout l'oeuvre peint de Degas, Milan 1970, p. 143, no. S.42 (another cast illustrated).
C. W. Millard, The Sculpture of Edgar Degas, Princeton 1976, no. 9 (another cast illustrated).
S. Campbell, 'Degas, The Sculptures, A Catalogue Raisonné', Apollo, London, August 1995, no. 13 (another cast illustrated p. 17).
Special notice
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Sale room notice
Please note that this work is numbered '13/E' (on the side of the base) and not as stated in the catalogue, and that the Galerie Flechtheim provenance given in the catalogue for this work does therefore not apply.